In emergencies,
people may trust
robots too much
for their own
safety, a new
study suggests. In
a mock building
fire, test
subjects followed
instructi
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In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests. In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions from an “Emergency Guide Robot†even after the machine had proven itself unreliable – and after some participants were told that robot had broken down.